Posts Tagged ‘iphone’

You’ve Got the Power

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

By Noam Resehf, Community Manager at Sears Social

This week we’re launching a new feature that may, on first glance, appear minor. We’re letting users tag products. Sounds simple right? Every user will now be able to add a tag to every product according to his knowledge or taste. Are you an apple fan? You can add the tag “cool” to the iPhone 4s page. Care about the environment? Tag products as “green”.

The reason this is no small matter for us is that we see it as a small step towards an important goal. We want to hand over the decision making to you guys. Instead of us making all of the calls, we want to use your wisdom, knowledge and experience. After all, there are so many of you and so few of us, right?

Tagging products is just a part of this. You can already create catalogs, upload pictures and share videos. Now we want you to not only share your views and tastes, but actually take part in molding and changing the site and making it better for all users – and for you.

Mobile deals

Special Offers on Mobile

Shop Your Way Rewards users get another boost to their mobile experience. Now you check our cool iPhone app for special offers just for members. Browsing in a store? Whip out your mobile and see what’s hot.

And One More Beauty Item

That lovely new discover page we bragged about? Well it just got a little better. Browse the products on the page, and notice they now have a nice quick view enabling you to interact with the items you like. Nice.

It’s All About the View

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

By Noam Resehf, Community Manager at Sears Social

It’s not like we’re shallow – but this week is all about eye candy. A vanity post, if you will.

Last week we told you about the new banners on brand pages, controlled by the page admins. No sooner did we release this capability, than the admins started to go wild with it. Check it out and click on the images to see the brand pages themselves:

Lego Star Wars

 

HBO SopranosHoly brand, Batman

 

That’s not all, in the looks department. We streamlined the site, going for elegance and panache. The search box is leaner and lovelier, and the status box is flatter and better looking. Plus, you can now share a product directly from it!

 

Interested in anything else?

Two other major improvements combine better looks with better functionality. Click on a product you like, or own, or think about owning. The product page now has recommendations for other products you may be interested in, related of course to the one you’re browsing. Relevant, smart and adds color to the page.

Also, the quick view layer is now present in even more areas of the site, enabling you to interact with the product of your choice without too many clicks. Comfort and style folks. That’s us.

The Mobile Way

And on the mobile front: if you’re a Shop Your Way Rewards member – rejoice! From now on you can carry your member card in your iPhone. It’s just permanently there. Pick some items, show your mobile to the associate when you pay – and get some points. Nice and easy.

Take Control, Shop In, Get Offers

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

By Noam Resehf, Community Manager at Sears Social

Brands were always important to us, and now we’re trying something exciting and new – letting go of them. We’re letting you manage brands, and decide what will go around in a brand page, what kind of content the brand followers will see and so on.

Before you get too excited, brand ownership is not to be handled lightly. We intend to make sure only official brand representatives become brand owners. However, those lucky devils may decide they need the help of some loyal fans who’ll act as page administrators. So who, knows, you might get lucky. Also, in the future, you can expect tag ownership – stay tuned.

Stores You’ve Been to, Items You Want

Coming soon on mobile: did you Shop in at one of our stores? Cool. in the very near future you’ll be able to see a list of stores you visited on the site and follow them. And even better, once you Shop in your iPhone will alert you if one of your wishlist items is on sale in this particular store.

 

You’re all out of wishes you say? We’ll show you products your friends were interested in. maybe you’ll find something you like. All that, combined with our improved chat, your friends’ tips about the store you’re in and your Shop Your Way Rewards info, makes mobile a unique and fun shopping tool.

Share the Joy and Making Mobile History

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

By Noam Resehf, Community Manager at Sears Social

Some exciting news this week: we are starting to reach out and let you share stuff from other sites on your newsfeed.

What does that mean? Well now you can be a good friend and share stuff with your Sears Social buddies from other sites, and not just directly from Sears Social.

The first site enabling this is naturally Sears.com. In the Sears.com homepage click on “New Local Ad”, choose a store you like and pick a product. Now click “Share this item”. Wait for it… and lo and behold – you can share the item to Sears Social! Amazing.

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Your History and Let’s Chat

 

Two new items on the mobile front: You can now go through your Shop Your Way Rewards history in your iPhone, which is very convenient if you’re on the move a lot. We also upgraded our chat, making notifications clickable, and letting you know how many times your friend tried to reach you – now you’ll know how annoyed he’ll be when you finally get back to him.


Creativity Dojo Results – Mobile Apps

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

by Pasha Bitz, Product Manager

This is the second post about things we built during the Sears Israel Creativity Dojo. Read the first post about Web Apps here.

Protect the Environment App

Gilad and Anya developed an app to help Environment Protection Volunteers (נאמן נקיון) document environmental pollution offenses.

The Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection runs a program to enforce anti-pollution laws where volunteers that go through special training can file reports when they see someone polluting the environment. The polluters are then fined. The apps helps the volunteer record the offense in real-time to help with later filling out the required report:

Universal text app

Tali and Guy developed an app that helps reach someone using many methods of communication at once. You can send an SMS, a Google Talk message and an email all at once. Now you can always find the person you need:

New features on the iPhone app

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

by Guy Haimovitch, Product Manager

New Catalog Screen

The catalog screen’s new design and functionality allows you to “Like” a catalog, view its description and easily access comments made on the catalog itself and on items inside the catalog.

Commenting on items in catalog

It’s now possible to comment on items in the context of the catalog they are in.

Simply tap the item’s button and read the available comments or add your own 2 cents.

New Types of Notifications are Available

You will now be updated in real-time when people comment on items in your catalog or on your recent activity.

New Recent Activity Content

Your recent activity feed will now include stories that describe the comments your friends made on different products and on items located inside catalogs.

Products in the palm of your hand

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

by Guy Haimovitch, Product Manager

The latest version of the Delver iPhone app includes major improvements to the way you experience products.

On top of its new design, the product screen now includes many useful features:

Product related questions

You can now ask questions and get answers from your friends and other Delver users.

and get updated via your Recent Activity Feed about questions your friends are asking:

Product image zoom

You can view a much larger product image by tapping the product images that have a “Zoom” indication

Compare prices

Last but not least, you can compare product prices  and continue shopping at your preferred seller’s website.

Delver for iPhone: Recent Activity

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

by Guy Haimovitch, Product Manager

We’ve redesigned the recent activity screen to be more fun to read and better use the available screen size:

  • Users’ images and fonts are smaller to fit more into the screen.
  • Product images are larger.

And more…

New Story Format

When your friend recommends a product to her friends – this will now appear in the recent activity screen:

Ability to pull down to read more and better indication when loading of newer or older stories.

You can download the Delver iPhone app here.

New Delver Features

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

by Pasha Bitz, Product Manager

Here are two new things you can do on Delver:

Friend’s Birthday – Remind me Later

Delver reminds you whenever one of your friends have a birthday soon, so you have enough time to check out their wish list and buy them a little something.

Now – you can ask Delver to remind you again a bit later:

iPhone App – Product Available in Store Near You

When looking at a product using the Delver iPhone App – you are now notified if the product is available from a nearby store. You can see store information like opening hours and locate the store on a map:

New Features on Delver

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

by Pasha Bitz, Product Manager

Yesterday we’ve added some new features to Delver.com and the Delver iPhone app:

Friends Page

We’ve made the “friends” page more interesting by showing, for each friend, the mutual friends and the friend’s current status message:

New friend display

Search suggestions

If you are by mistake searching for something using the wrong search (for example: search “Eui Chung” in “products”) – Delver will suggest to try the other search types:

Othes search types suggestion

Collecting more free-form opinions from users

When browsing your friends’ activity on Delver, it’s fun to be able to see some explanations about why they rated a particular product the way they did or why they added some product to a particular catalog.

Delver will ask user to enter some optional text when performing specific actions, for example:

Write a comment when adding to catalog

Comment when adding to catalog

Add a one-liner after rating a product

One liner after rating a product

Reminder to enter catalog description for catalogs with more than 5 items

Catalog description after adding 5 items

iPhone App

Reviews and Comments by User

You can now view all reviews and comments made by a specific user in Delver. You can do this by visiting the user’s “Content” screen and tapping “Reviews” or “Comments”:

iPhone - reviews and comments by user

More Notification Types

A new design and new types of notifications are now available in the notifications screen:

  • When someone commented on your catalog
  • When someone commented on a product after you
  • When a friend gave you permission to edit a catalog
  • When a friend recommended a product to you
  • When a friend unlocked a badge